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IMF World Economic Outlook Database Data
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IMF World Economic Outlook Database Data
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/datasets/imf-weo
- Owner: datasets
- Created: 2014-08-30T22:07:34.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-25T14:25:57.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-21T11:51:55.672Z (10 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo
- Size: 3.08 MB
- Stars: 39
- Watchers: 13
- Forks: 16
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database. The [IMF World Economic
Outlook][weo] is a twice-yearly survey by IMF staff that presents IMF staff
economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium
term. Associated with the report is the [World Economic Outlook
Database][weo-db], a country-level dataset of major macro-economic variables
(GDP, Unemployment, Debt etc). It is the data from that database which is
provided here.
[weo]: http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=29
[weo-db]: http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28
## Data
The source database is made of annual values for each country on 45 indicators
since 1980. In addition the database includes the IMF projects approximately 6
years into the future.
We extract this data and normalize into 2 files:
* Indicators - `data/indicators.csv` - the list of indicators
* Values - `data/values.csv` - set of values for each indicator, country, year tuple.
* Country - 'data/country.csv' - set of value for mapping each ISO country code, WEO country code, and CLDR English Name
### Sources
Note the XLS files actual turn out to be tsv files!
* [Listing page for WEO Database][weo-db]
* 2015 - http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2015/01/weodata/index.aspx
* http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2015/01/weodata/WEOApr2015all.xls
* 2014 - http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2014/01/weodata/index.aspx
* http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2014/01/weodata/WEOApr2014all.xls
* 2011 - http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/02/weodata/index.aspx
* http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/02/weodata/WEOSep2011all.xls
## Preparation
Code to extract the data from the source WEO Database is in the `scripts`
directory.
## License
This Data Package is licensed by its maintainers under the [Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)](http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/).